School Readiness
Create strong foundations for early learning.
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Our Focus Areas
We partner with education organizations dedicated to accelerating student outcomes across three areas.
School Readiness
Ensure more children enter kindergarten ready to thrive, setting the trajectory for their futures.
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School Success
Increase the number of kindergarten through eighth grade students demonstrating meaningful growth and proficiency in literacy and math.
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Future Readiness
Help students develop the cognitive skills, meaningful connections, and sense of agency needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
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Our Grantees
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Organization
Description
Grant Amount
Grant Period
Focus Area
Organization
Education Resource Strategies, Inc.Description
To prototype Education Resource Strategies’ lower-cost pathway for state/district leaders to create the conditions for effective strategic staffing model implementation.Grant Amount
$300,000Grant Period
March 1, 2025 -August 31, 2026
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Education Resource Strategies, Inc.Description
To build and refine the tools leaders need to improve the teaching profession for the long-term.Grant Amount
$921,000Grant Period
November 1, 2021 -October 31, 2024
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Edunomics at Georgetown UniversityDescription
To improve expenditure data on teacher PL investments and produce timely ROI data tools to support strategic financial decision making by state and district leaders.Grant Amount
$400,000Grant Period
September 1, 2024 -August 31, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Ensemble LearningDescription
To strengthen Ensemble Learning’s evidence capabilities to drive program improvement and impact.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2026
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
ETS ResearchDescription
To enable ETS to extend its Skills for the Future initiative into middle school by developing and validating learning progressions, authentic assessment tasks, and a growth-oriented skills record for collaboration.Grant Amount
$651,000Grant Period
March 1, 2026 -August 31, 2027
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
EXPLRDescription
To revive the National STEM Festival to increase the visibility of joyful and rigorous STEM learning.Grant Amount
$100,000Grant Period
November 1, 2023 -October 31, 2024
Focus Area
Future ReadinessOrganization
FIND-PDDescription
To advance FIND-PD’s innovation pipeline and build early evidence of impact and sustainability through course completion, AI-enabled coaching pilots, and growth strategy testing.Grant Amount
$380,000Grant Period
June 1, 2025 -May 31, 2026
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
FIND-PDDescription
To support FIND-PD in developing a scalable product, testing and refining its growth strategy, and building its revenue model.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
June 1, 2024 -May 31, 2025
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
FIRSTDescription
To support FIRST’s continued growth and improvements to digital infrastructure.Grant Amount
$750,000Grant Period
November 1, 2023 -October 31, 2026
Focus Area
Future ReadinessOrganization
Fishtank LearningDescription
To scale Fishtank Learning’s reach and impact by expanding usage of its ELA curriculum and advancing development of its math program.Grant Amount
$1,000,000Grant Period
November 1, 2025 -October 31, 2027
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Fishtank LearningDescription
To support Fishtank Learning in understanding and strengthening the impact of its HQIM on student outcomes.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
September 1, 2024 -August 31, 2025
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
FutureEd at Georgetown UniversityDescription
To support the creation of an updated Attendance Playbook and influence adoption of evidence-based policies on absenteeism.Grant Amount
$157,500Grant Period
November 1, 2025 -December 31, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
FutureEd at Georgetown UniversityDescription
To support FutureEd in expanding its work focused on high-impact tutoring and chronic absenteeism.Grant Amount
$440,000Grant Period
October 1, 2024 -September 30, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
FutureEd at Georgetown UniversityDescription
To scale adoption of high-dosage tutoring efforts by supporting FutureEd to produce and disseminate narrative-style success stories of high-dosage tutoring efforts from across the country.Grant Amount
$290,000Grant Period
April 1, 2023 -June 30, 2024
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
GreatSchoolsDescription
To support the integration of chronic absenteeism data into school profiles on the GreatSchools platform.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
GreenLight FundDescription
To support the expansion of the GreenLight network into Newark, filling gaps in Newark’s social services and making measurable impact on the lives of low-income residents.Grant Amount
$1,000,000Grant Period
March 15, 2022 -March 14, 2027
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Harvard Graduate School of EducationDescription
To support an RCT examining the impact of predictive AI content in young children’s media in supporting children’s science learning in the short- and longer-term.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
April 1, 2025 -September 30, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Harvard UniversityDescription
To conduct two rigorous studies of statewide policy initiatives in Ohio & Alabama, build state capacity to conduct and use research, and influence evidence-based policy in these and other states.Grant Amount
$975,000Grant Period
November 1, 2025 -October 31, 2027
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Harvard UniversityDescription
To research factors that affect economic opportunity and identify policies that promote upward mobility.Grant Amount
$4,000,000Grant Period
September 1, 2023 -August 31, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
HighScopeDescription
To develop and test targeted professional learning improvements to strengthen HighScope’s implementation quality.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
March 1, 2026 -February 28, 2027
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
I-LABSDescription
To support and disseminate I-LABS research on families' roles in early childhood development.Grant Amount
$3,238,850Grant Period
May 1, 2021 -June 30, 2024
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Imagine ScienceDescription
To support sustainability planning and the development of Imagine Science’s new two-year strategic plan.Grant Amount
$200,000Grant Period
October 1, 2024 -September 30, 2025
Focus Area
Future ReadinessOrganization
InPlay Learning NetworkDescription
To support the development of InPlay’s data and measurement system.Grant Amount
$250,000Grant Period
November 1, 2024 -October 31, 2025
Focus Area
Future ReadinessOrganization
Institute for Child SuccessDescription
To enhance Help Me Grow’s ability to measure impact for families and communitiesGrant Amount
$250,000Grant Period
February 1, 2025 -July 31, 2026
Focus Area
School ReadinessDescription
To provide bipartisan technical assistance to states' early education systems.Grant Amount
$400,000Grant Period
July 1, 2023 -June 30, 2024
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription
To test an AI-powered prototype and generate field-wide learning on the use of data-driven decision making to improve attendance.Grant Amount
$140,000Grant Period
August 29, 2025 -August 28, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription
To support a QED study evaluating the impact of Anet’s Project Compass tool on teachers’ instructional practices and students’ math achievement.Grant Amount
$500,000Grant Period
July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2028
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription
To support a QED study evaluating the impact of Modern Classroom Project’s (MCP) professional learning and aligned curriculum cesources (PLACR) tool on the quality of teachers’ instruction and 4th and 5th graders’ math acheivement.Grant Amount
$500,000Grant Period
July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2027
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Johns Hopkins University – Center for Talented YouthDescription
To support CTY's course-embedded assessment research which will expand identification tools and methods for educators.Grant Amount
$67,000Grant Period
October 1, 2025 -September 30, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Johns Hopkins University – Center for Talented YouthDescription
To support financial aid for advanced learners to attend the Center for Talented Youth's on-campus academic programs in the summer of 2025, alongside peers who share their exceptional abilities and love of learning.Grant Amount
$430,000Grant Period
March 1, 2025 -February 28, 2026
Focus Area
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